Mitesh K Desai, Age 4524204 14Th St, Redmond, WA 98075

7599304, Oct 6, 2009

Feb 28, 2006

11/364450

Mitesh K. Desai - Redmond WA, US
David C. Harding - Monroe WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G01R 31/08

370251, 370241, 370247, 370252

A controllable and/or configurable device that communicates wirelessly with a station may be used to test the station. For example, the device may be configured to communicate in multiple different wireless communication modes. As another example, the device may be controlled to engage in wireless communications that do not comply with the communication standard, e. g. , IEEE standard 802. 11. As a further example, the device may be controlled to reduce the strength of the wireless signal that is transmitted. The station's response to the wireless communication may be evaluated.

8165044, Apr 24, 2012

Oct 19, 2007

11/874962

Saurabh Mahajan - Redmond WA, US
Taroon Mandhana - Redmond WA, US
Abhishek Abhishek - Woodinville WA, US
Mitesh K. Desai - Redmond WA, US
Thomas W. Kuehnel - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04B 7/005
H04L 12/28

370278, 370401

A method and apparatus for managing simultaneous virtual connections with multiple wireless networks. A plurality of ports in a hardware driver may be each associated with a corresponding wireless network and maintain a unique MAC state relative to other ports. Each port may have a corresponding virtual NIC that communicates directly with the radio hardware via a hardware virtualization layer that multiplexes communication between the virtual NICs and the radio hardware. Simultaneous virtual connections may be made with one or more infrastructure networks or adhoc networks, and/or the computer may function as an access point for one or more of the networks.

8589991, Nov 19, 2013

Dec 14, 2010

12/967761

Amer A. Hassan - Kirkland WA, US
Danny Allen Reed - Redmond WA, US
Mitesh K. Desai - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04N 7/18

725 81, 725141

A wireless computer that pairs with a remote audio-video presentation device, such as a television. As a result of the pairing, a communication channel is established for the computer to transmit audio-video content for presentation through that device. Additionally, as part of the pairing, the computer and remote device select a side channel for communication of user commands. The wireless computer may display a user interface through which a user may input commands that control the manner in which the remote audio-video device presents the content. As a result, a user may use the wireless computer as a remote control for the audio-video device, controlling both the content presented and the manner in which it is presented. The side channel may use different frequencies than the channel used to communicate audio-video content, and may use very low power at frequencies in the digital TV spectrum.

8634771, Jan 21, 2014

Jun 15, 2011

13/161313

Amer A. Hassan - Kirkland WA, US
Mitesh K. Desai - Redmond WA, US
Mukund Sankaranarayan - Sammamish WA, US
Henrique Filgueiras - Kirkland WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04B 5/00

455 411, 455 412, 455 76, 4554143, 455 631, 4555521, 455410, 370252, 370255, 370338, 370348

Wireless devices that support bootstrapping of a peer-to-peer connection. The wireless devices may use an infrastructure mode connection to exchange security information, such as a PIN, used in establishing the peer-to-peer connection. This security information may be encrypted in accordance with a security protocol used by the access point and then may be applied in a security protocol used to establish a peer-to-peer connection. Such a bootstrapping capability supports operating scenarios in which devices that are communicating over an infrastructure network encounter an operation that requires transfer of large amounts of data and automatically transition to a peer-to-peer connection that provides better performance. With these techniques, a computing device may automatically connect to a display device and stream audio/video data to the display.

2007020, Aug 30, 2007

Feb 28, 2006

11/364605

Mitesh Desai - Redmond WA, US
David Harding - Monroe WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04Q 7/24

370338000, 370401000

A controllable and/or configurable device that communicates wirelessly with a station may be used to test the station. For example, the device may be configured to communicate in multiple different wireless communication modes. As another example, the device may be controlled to engage in wireless communications that do not comply with the communication standard, e.g., IEEE standard 802.11. As a further example, the device may be controlled to reduce the strength of the wireless signal that is transmitted. The station's response to the wireless communication may be evaluated.

2007020, Aug 30, 2007

Feb 28, 2006

11/364606

Mitesh Desai - Redmond WA, US
David Harding - Monroe WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/00

702189000, 702066000, 702069000, 702127000, 340539100, 340539210, 343703000, 455115300, 455226200

A controllable and/or configurable device that communicates wirelessly with a station may be used to test the station. For example, the device may be configured to communicate in multiple different wireless communication modes. As another example, the device may be controlled to engage in wireless communications that do not comply with the communication standard, e.g., IEEE standard 802.11. As a further example, the device may be controlled to reduce the strength of the wireless signal that is transmitted. The station's response to the wireless communication may be evaluated.

2009025, Oct 8, 2009

Apr 4, 2008

12/098161

Ani Anirudh - Redmond WA, US
Anirban Banerjee - Issaquah WA, US
Christopher D. Gual - Seattle WA, US
Deyun Wu - Issaquah WA, US
Hui Shen - Sammamish WA, US
John W. Archer - Marysville WA, US
Michael Bell - Auburn WA, US
Mitesh K. Desai - Redmond WA, US
Saurabh Mahajan - Redmond WA, US
Senthilkumar Veluswami - Bellevue WA, US
Xiong Jiang - Lynnwood WA, US
Sundar P. Subramani - Bellevue WA, US
Taroon Mandhana - Redmond WA, US
Thomas W. Kuehnel - Seattle WA, US
Yan Wu - Redmond WA, US
Yi Lu - Sammamish WA, US
David A. Roberts - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 3/00

719321

Some embodiments of the invention provide an interface between programmed instructions (e.g., an operating system) and a miniport driver configured to communicate with radio hardware on a computer. The interface may include components operable to invoke various wireless connectivity-related functionality implemented by the radio hardware and/or miniport driver. The functionality may, for example, include a capability whereby the computer may maintain simultaneous connections on a plurality of wireless networks using a single radio, and/or a capability whereby the computer may function as an access point for a wireless network.

2012015, Jun 21, 2012

Dec 16, 2010

12/970159

Amer A. Hassan - Kirkland WA, US
Mitesh K. Desai - Redmond WA, US
Yatharth Gupta - Bellevue WA, US
Henrique Filgueiras - Kirkland WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04K 1/00

380270

A wireless computing device operating as a controller of a peer-to-peer group configured to generate unique master keys for each device joining the group. The wireless computing device may use the unique master keys to selectively remove remote devices from the group such that the remote device cannot later rejoin the group. Other remote devices, each possessing a master key that remains valid, can disconnect from the group and later reconnect to the group without express user action. To support such behavior, the wireless device may provide a user interface through which a user may manage connected remote devices by providing commands to selectively disconnect or remove remote devices from the group.